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SORNARAJAH

M Sornarajah LLB (Ceylon), LLM (Yale), LLM, PhD, LLD (London) is Emeritus Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. He was CJ Koh Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore. He was the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of International Law at the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur. He was Head of the Law School of the University of Tasmania, Australia.

He studied law at the University of Ceylon (LLB, First Class), the Yale Law School (LLM) the London School of Economics (LLM) and King’s College, London (PhD, LLD). He was Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, Cambridge and at the Max Planck Institut fur Offentliches Auslandisches Recht at Heidelburg, Germany. He was Visiting Professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (where he delivered the Pierre Genest Distinguished Lecture), Carleton University, Ottawa (where he delivered the Simon Reisman Lecture), the University of Malaya (where he delivered the Tun Suffian Lecture), the Centre for Petroleum and Natural Resources Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland, American University at Washington DC; the World Trade Institute of the Universities of Berne and Neuchatel, Switzerland, Kyushu University, Japan, the Xiamen Academy of International Law, China, Xi’An Jiatao University, China, Beijing School of Transnational Law, China, Fundacio Gerulaitis Vargas Law School, Sao Paolo, Brazil, the Human Rights Centre of the London School of Economics, the National Law School, Bangalore, India and at the Georgetown Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London. He lectured at the Supreme Court Judges Retreat at the National Judicial Institute, Bhopal, India.

He is the author of The Pursuit of Nationalized Property (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1986); International Commercial Arbitration (Longman, 1992); The Law of International Joint Ventures (Longman, 1994); The International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2nd ed., 2004, third edition  2010, fourth edition 2017; fifth edition, forthcoming in June, 2021), The Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes (Kluwer, The Hague, 2001),  Resistance and Change in the International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge University Press, London, April,2015) and Misery of International Law (with John Linarelli and Margot Salomon; Oxford University Press, 2018) This work won the Book Prize for 2019 of the European Society of International Law. He is joint editor of China, India and the International Economic Law (with Jiangyu Wang, Cambridge University Press,London, 2010 ); Good Faith in International Investment Law (with Andrew Mitchell and Tania Voon; Oxford University Press, 2015).

He was the Director of the UNCTAD/WTO Programme on Investment Treaties, Pretoria and New Delhi. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Columbia Centre Sustainable Investment.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration. He is on the Regional Panel of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre and the Kuala Lumpur Regional Arbitration Centre. He was a member of the Presidential Commission on Foreign Investment of Ecuador. He has been arbitrator, counsel or expert in several investment arbitrations. He has published extensively in the areas of public international law and international investment law. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Singapore and a Solicitor of the High Court of England and Wales. He is an Honorary Member of the Indian Society of International Law.

• Public international law
• International law in Asia
• Jurisdiction in international law
• International commercial arbitration
• Criminal law
• Foreign investment and its protection